Remember (The Fiery Furnaces album)

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Remember
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 19th, 2008 (US)
September 8, 2008 (UK)
RecordedOctober 2005–April 2008
Genre Indie rock
Length132:02
Label Thrill Jockey
Producer Matthew Friedberger
The Fiery Furnaces chronology
Widow City
(2007)
Remember
(2008)
I'm Going Away
(2009)

Remember is the first live album from indie rock band The Fiery Furnaces, released on August 19, 2008. The album includes various live performances of songs from their first six studio albums, recorded between 2005 and the tour for their 2007 album, Widow City . Some longer songs, such as "Blueberry Boat" and "Quay Cur", have multiple cuts in the track from various performances. Other songs, such as the tracks from the Bitter Tea medley, were recorded live in the recording studio.

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

  1. Intro - 0:41
  2. Blueberry Boat - 8:27
  3. Single Again - 3:33
  4. Two Fat Feet - 2:28
  5. Don't Dance Her Down - 3:26
  6. Single Again (Reprise) - 2:03
  7. Wicker Whatnots - 2:55
  8. Little Thatched Hut - 4:12
  9. I'm in No Mood - 2:59
  10. Black-Hearted Boy - 2:38
  11. Bitter Tea - 2:47
  12. Waiting to Know You - 1:34
  13. Vietnamese Telephone Ministry - 2:46
  14. Oh Sweet Woods - 2:31
  15. Borneo - 3:30
  16. Benton Harbor Blues - 1:41
  17. Japanese Slippers - 2:23
  18. Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise) - 1:03
  19. Whistle Rhapsody - 1:52
  20. Crystal Clear - 1:39
  21. Whistle Rhapsody (Reprise) - 1:15
  22. Teach Me Sweetheart - 3:41
  23. Evergreen - 1:37
  24. Bitter Tea (Reprise) - 1:30

Disc two

  1. Chris Michaels - 6:57
  2. Quay Cur - 8:17
  3. My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found - 2:52
  4. Spaniolated - 2:01
  5. Name Game - 2:27
  6. Birdie Brain - 2:28
  7. 1917 - 3:08
  8. Slavin' Away (Intro) - 0:18
  9. Tropical Ice-land - 3:29
  10. Asthma Attack - 1:44
  11. Tropical Ice-land (Reprise) - 0:26
  12. The Wayward Granddaughter - 4:38
  13. The Garfield El - 1:48
  14. A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag - 1:08
  15. Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second St. - 2:40
  16. Slavin' Away - 2:58
  17. Seven Silver Curses - 1:40
  18. Clear Signal From Cairo - 1:37
  19. I'm Gonna Run - 2:26
  20. Here Comes the Summer - 3:15
  21. Chief Inspector Blancheflower - 2:31
  22. Automatic Husband - 1:38
  23. Ex-Guru - 2:34
  24. Clear Signal From Cairo (Reprise) - 1:39
  25. Philadelphia Grand Jury - 1:13
  26. Navy Nurse - 0:59
  27. Uncle Charlie - 2:17

Additional information

Instead of displaying the full track listing, the album contains only a listing of the six suites:

  1. Old HK
  2. Waiting at the Lobby at 665½ Frontage Road
  3. In a House Once Owned by the Princes of Mataran
  4. Drinking by the Des Plaines River
  5. Black Death Bottle
  6. A Special Commission of Navajo Basketball Coaches and Blonde Ladies

The packaging includes a small paper insert titled "Remember Treasure Hunt" that proposes that the listener write down guesses of the track listing, before and after listening to the album.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Cokemachineglow (7.4/10) [2]
Pitchfork Media (4.3/10) [3]
Popmatters (7/10) [4]
This Is Fake DIY (5/10) [5]
Web in Front (Positive) [6]

Personnel

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